Competency 5

Competency 5: Identifying Annual Goals

Summary:

Guiding Questions:

1. What am I teaching? What is the desired intent of this goal? Is this goal written from a skill based or a task based perspective?
2. Why am I teaching it? Is this annual goal essential for this student to learn this year in order to pursue his/her post secondary expectations?
3. Why am I teaching it this way? How much support does the student need to learn this skill/achieve the desired result?

Guiding Goal Writing Resources for What a Student Needs to Know and Be able to Do

Iowa Core CurriculumI
Iowa 21st Century Skills

Skill 1: Selecting the Right Goal Area
Summary: This skill involves distinguishing between student skills and tasks when writing goals, and determining the relevancy of the goal to the student's post secondary expectation.

• Skills vs Tasks:
• Goal relevancy to the student's PSE:

Resources:
Skills vs Task perspective: Homework and Beyond: Teaching Organizational Skills to Individuals with ASD Skills or Tasks

Skill 2: Writing Measurable Outcome Based Annual Goals

• Current Academic Achievement and Functional Performance
• Baseline:
• Measurable Annual Goal:

Resources:Refer to Competency 3 and the resources of the Iowa Core and 21stCenturySkillsLinks for assistance in writing standards based meaningful goals. :